Calling Southern Ray

LME · Mar 21, 2016

I see you are near Edinburg, we spend Jan-Feb in McAllen in a RV park. Just interested in what you raise, fruit, veg. other? Thank you.

Southern Ray · Mar 21, 2016

Many winter Texans from the mid-west come to spend the winter with us.
I meet with several from a nearby RV park for breakfast most every morning.
They start heading back in a week or two.
We have a pretty much year round growing season for everything, citrus, vegetables, sorghum, cotton, sugar cane, corn.
The Rio Grande River and the irrigation system installed by the pioneers in the early 1900s makes all this possible.
Dad was a dry land farmer. He raised corn, sorghum, and cotton for cash crop.
I recently retired from the electrical and construction industry.
Gardening with my '41 Farmall M is my major hobby.

WAYNE-N-TX · Mar 22, 2016

Hate to but in on y'alls conversation but I was just wondering. Is the big big cold storage building still in Monte Alto. I worked there around 1961/62. Dang it was cold. They were bringing frozen fruit in 18 wheelers and dumping as we were finishing. we were in a cafe eating breakfast one morning and a guy come in and bounced a grapefruit off the floor like a ball.

Southern Ray · Mar 22, 2016

It's probably still there.
It's been several years since I been out that way. I don't have a reason to drive out that way.
Several more have since been built down here.

DannyE · Mar 23, 2016

Hi! I am in my first year of being a winter Texan, would like to meet up sometime? I'm up by Rivier at a campground, a long ways from Bemidji, MN. I'll be here till the end of the month. send e-mail

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